[HN Gopher] Red Hat RHEL 9 release
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       Red Hat RHEL 9 release
        
       Author : ossusermivami
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2022-05-11 21:14 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | antihero wrote:
       | Is there going to be an equivalent Rocky Linux?
        
       | ianai wrote:
       | How long until the RHEL tests are updated to 9? Started aiming at
       | 8 recently.
        
       | mbreese wrote:
       | Are there release notes available? What I'd really like to know
       | is what has changed from 8? There's usually a few major changes
       | with the major version bump, so that's what I was hoping to find
       | here (or really linked from the press release, but I couldn't
       | find it).
        
         | tkuraku wrote:
         | https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
        
       | sascha_sl wrote:
       | Interesting timing, Fedora 36 released today.
       | 
       | RHEL 9 is surprisingly modern, being based on Fedora 34 which
       | itself still has about a month of support remaining.
        
         | totierne2 wrote:
         | I like the number 8.
        
       | tadbit wrote:
       | Given what Red Hat and the CentOS project did to CentOS 8 I have
       | no desire to use RHEL ever again. Right now it's just Ubuntu LTS
       | and Debian for my needs. Working on eliminating RHEL at work as
       | well, wherever I can.
        
         | geerlingguy wrote:
         | For the few systems I upgraded to CentOS 8 back before it was
         | killed, I switched them to Rocky Linux (Alma's also a good
         | choice).
         | 
         | I'm still waiting a bit longer to see whether I'll keep my toes
         | in the RHEL-ecosystem-waters, or if I finish moving everything
         | to Ubuntu LTS and Debian.
        
         | rjgonza wrote:
         | Amen! I share these thoughts and plan of action completely.
        
       | tkuraku wrote:
       | Redhat is my favorite Linux distro for my workstation. It just
       | works and is rock solid. I wish they had a node locked license
       | option like windows pro workstation,https://www.microsoft.com/en-
       | us/d/windows-10-pro-for-worksta..., for $300-500 for a major
       | version instead of always having to manage subscriptions.
        
         | colechristensen wrote:
         | When RedHat officially supported a piece of hardware, and your
         | large enterprise software officially supported RedHat, it was a
         | pretty good setup.
         | 
         | Lots of things which are otherwise a mess in Linux just
         | weren't.
         | 
         | Of course much of my experience on this was with things like
         | $10k per seat software on a $5k workstation or similar.
         | 
         | One of the reasons containerization is so popular is poorly
         | supported software (on ubuntu mostly) just being broken and
         | hard to work with combined with a pretty bad way to write and
         | manage packages (apt).
        
         | nvr219 wrote:
         | What hardware do you use it on
        
           | tkuraku wrote:
           | At work I have a dell t7920 desktop. At home I have a custome
           | built desktop from 2014 with an Intel i7. Works like a charm.
        
       | VWWHFSfQ wrote:
       | The word "Microsoft" appears 12 times in this press release.
       | 
       | I always thought Microsoft would end up acquiring Red Hat, but
       | IBM did it instead. Now I think they'll acquire Canonical. I
       | think it's only a matter of time before we'll have a Microsoft
       | Linux.
        
         | ohthehugemanate wrote:
         | https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner
         | 
         | Microsoft's linux platforms presently run mostly on Ubuntu.
         | You're right that one way out of that dependency would be to
         | buy Canonical. They chose to make their own top level Linux
         | distro instead.
        
           | rajishx wrote:
           | reading it from the README it does seem they use fedora/spec
           | for packaging? is it ubuntu repackaged with rpm?
        
         | rajishx wrote:
         | to be fair and try to dismiss your comment, it does seem the
         | word Microsoft has been associated a lot with opensource
         | companies and technologies lately.
        
           | bityard wrote:
           | To give MS credit, they are _much_ more friendly to open
           | source than I ever believed they could be. I think the
           | popularity of Linux and Mac for web/cloud development (which
           | is almost entirely based around open source code) more or
           | less forced their hand.
        
             | mistrial9 wrote:
             | friendly, as in "we enable your chinese food order, we
             | monitor you eating it, and we get some of yours when we
             | want it" friendly
        
             | ianai wrote:
             | It's a shock to me as well. I do think this direction leads
             | to more revenue for them long term though. Clearly the
             | Windows desktop isn't quite enough for their future plans
             | so they've got to play nice with emerging platforms, or
             | something. (Sounds more like 2013 logic but you get the
             | idea...)
        
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